1857 - Hiram Walker establishes a trade as a commission
merchant of grain and amasses $40,000.00 to establish
a flour mill and distillery. The Michigan ligislature
shows fickleness when dealing with the whisky issue so
Walker puchases land on the Onterio side of the Detroit
River from Chief Pontiac (Bev Med Blue Book, History).

o - Henry Corby opens a grist mill and the village that
grew around it became known as Corbyville (Brown, 200
Years of Tradition, p. 34).

1858 - Hiram Walker markets his first whisky, Old Magnolia,
and adopts this date as the founding of his company
(Bev Med Blue Book, History).

o - Hiram Walker convinces the Onterio legislature to pass
laws that forbid the sale of Onterio made whisky until
it is properly aged. This creates the new class of
whisky - Canadian Whiskey (Bev Med Blue Book, History).

1859 - H Corby Distillery is founded (Liquor Store Magazine, 2/70).

o - Hiram Walker moves his family to Windsor Ontario. He
moves back to Detroit after 5 years (Brown, 200 Years
of Tradition, p. 30).

circa 1860 - Hiram Walker decides to bottle his whisky to
insure the quality. He offered this whisky on a limited
market or "club" and this became known as Walker's Club
whisky (Bev Med Blue Book, History).

1873 - Financial panic in the U.S. causes a slip in the
Canadian economy, forcing Hiram Walker to reorganize
the Company (Bev Med Blue Book, History).

o - Legislation in the U.S. forces the country of origin to
be shown promently on the labels of all whisky imported
to the U.S., thus Canadian Club is born (Bev Med Blue
Book, History).

o - Harry C Hatch is born (Fortune, Nov., 33).

1875 - Gooderham and Worts were producing 1/3 of all spirits
in Canada ( Brown, 200 Years of Tradition, p. 20).

1877 - Montreal Gazette describes Gooderham and Worts as one
of the most important companies in Canada (Brown, 200
Years of Tradition, p.19).

1881 - Henry Corby dies. His son Henry Jr. takes over the
distillery (Brown, 200 Years of Tradition, p. 35).

1882 - Walkerville has a population of 600, most of whom
worked in the distillery (Brown, 200 Years of
Tradition, p. 31).

1884 - Harry Hatch is born in Ameliasburg, Ontario (Brown, 200
Years of Tradition, p. 108).